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Black Issues in Philosophy: Response to “Australian Continental Philosophy”

At the end of November into the first week of December 2017, I had the good fortune of participating in the Australasian Society for...
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Black Issues in Philosophy: Australian Continental Philosophy

By Bryan Mukandi I suspect that just about every Shona child who grew up in the Zimbabwe of the 1980s through to the mid-1990s grew...
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Black Issues in Philosophy: Does Race Trump Gender? Intersectionality and Charles Mills

The recent issue of Critical Philosophy of Race (Vol 5. Issue 1) features a mini symposium on the work of renowned philosopher Charles Mills...
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Reflections on Tommy Curry

Part 1: Opinion I write this op-ed to express my view of Texas A&M University’s President Michael K. Young’s commentary on Professor Tommy Curry, which...

Cultivating Inclusiveness: The PIKSI Institute

Any night that an inspirational philosopher like Sally Haslanger tells me I belong in philosophy is a good one in my book. A starry-eyed...
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Featured Philosopher: Donna-Dale Marcano

What is black feminist philosophy? To raise this question, argues Donna-Dale Marcano, an associate professor of philosophy and Director of the Human Rights Center...
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Black Issues in Philosophy: Introduction

Dear Readers: We here introduce Black Issues in Philosophy: Blog of the APA Committee on the Status of Black Philosophers. The purpose of this series is...
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Using The Deviant Philosopher This Fall

It’s that time of year when many of us are finalizing, or starting to finalizing (or finalizing to start) our course syllabi for the...

APA receives second Mellon Foundation grant to support undergraduate diversity institutes

The American Philosophical Association (APA) is pleased to announce that it has been awarded a major grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, a...
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The Deviant Philosopher – A Teaching Resource

In a wonderful keynote address at the Harvard East Asia Society Graduate Conference this year, Professor Michael Puett warned against the dangers of ideological...